Jason Liu from OpenAI questions why AI labs have not addressed water consumption claims
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Jason Liu, Developer Experience Engineer at OpenAI on the Codex team, posted questioning why AI labs have not addressed claims about water consumption tied to model training and data center cooling. The post framed the issue as unaddressed mythology generating environmental scrutiny. Bojan Tunguz replied that labs have provided moderate details on resource use, which are frequently overshadowed by sensational coverage in public narratives around AI infrastructure demands.
@jxnlco They have, but, as with so many other things in life, moderate positive info gets squashed by the hysterical inflammatory outrage.
jason@jxnlcoWhy has ai labs not tried to address this whole water mythology.
2:57 PM · May 18, 2026 · 14.6K Views
3:52 PM · May 18, 2026 · 612 Views
Why has ai labs not tried to address this whole water mythology.
2:57 PM · May 18, 2026 · 14.6K Views
